12 Ideas For More Breakthrough Summer Reading For Kids
Reading in the summer helps all kids keep their reading skills sharp. Unfortunately, many kids with dyslexia or other reading disabilities often dread just picking up a book. Here are 12 quick, easy ways you can encourage more summer reading from your child! #1. Make many books available. We have books throughout our house, mostly […]
3 Tips for Parenting an ADHD Child
Does your child have ADHD? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a common childhood mental health disorder that affects about 9% of children in America, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. However, the diagnosis of ADHD has been on the rise for the last several years and it’s an issue that parents, […]
How to Interpret a Kid’s Behaviors
When parents and teachers talk about kids with special needs, they are often referring to a specific diagnostic label. A diagnostic label describes the patterns of a child’s behavior. A diagnostic label explains why a child may be struggling in one area of learning academic skills, like reading, writing, or math. Diagnostic labels may be […]
How to Teach Paragraph Writing in Your Special Needs Homeschool
Are you homeschooling a kids with special needs like Dyslexia or Autism? Does your kid cry and have a meltdown for every writing assignment? Do you avoid doing writing in your homeschool because it is just so hard for your child? Have you gone from one grammar and writing curriculum to the next searching for […]
10 New Folder Games for Syllable Rules!
Ooohhh! You are going to love the new games I just uploaded to TPT! I just added 10 games for syllable rules! The games cover all 6 syllable types plus compound words. They are compatible with any Orton-Gillingham morphology program. I typically use the Wilson Reading System and Megawords – or my own program that […]
Teach Your Students to Organize Their Thinking!
Organizational Thinking Skills Make Stronger Learners! When someone says they are good at organizing, they typically mean systems for storing stuff. Or they might be good at time management. Or they might easily schedule and balance multiple activities. However, when I talk about organizational thinking skills for learning, I am talking about a brain process […]
New Set of 10 Printable Games for CVC Words!
I am so excited to announce a new product just uploaded to Teachers Pay Teachers. This is my first set of 10 board games for short vowel CVC words! Each game has a direction page and a 1-page game board. They are designed in black and white, so you can print them out in grayscale. […]
Working Memory is Important for Learning
Working Memory is not only important, it is essential to learning! Working memory is temporary short-term memory where the brain holds information in order to accomplish a task. You can think about it as short-term memory in action. Some examples of when we use working memory are: Cooking from a recipe Remembering a phone number […]
Practical Ways to Improve Attention
Practical Ways to Improve Attention We know that inattention involves impulsive actions, not finishing tasks, switching tasks frequently, having a hard time with transitions, lack of motivation on boring tasks, and difficulty with organization. We also know that kids who struggle with attention also tend to respond well to positive reinforcement and having choices. We […]
Fun Ways to Teach Phonics
Fun Ways to Teach Phonics Teaching phonics can be extremely dry by following most multisensory phonics programs. A comprehensive phonics lesson should include the following: phonemic awareness building, work with sound-symbol correspondence (letter sounds), work with segmenting and blending (words), and reading smoothly in phrases and sentences. People are often surprised that kids tend to […]